Excerpt from Dreamland Stars: And Other Poems OT as we willed it has our dream come true, The time, the place, the very fact seems new; E'en tho' the hopes we've cherished, year by year, Have by our yearnings made full doubly dear Still 'tis not as we fancied it would be. Through mystic glamour now we clearly see The path, we dreamed with dewy roses spread, Bears many wilted leaves and blossoms dead. 'tis not to wander idly, gladly o'er, And meet no stumbling blocks nor sorrows sore; Dull duty, more than love, doth mark the way, And joys fleet fast, while yet the cares do stay. 'tis long to wait for guidance from above, Heaven's light shines not with all the glare we love; In struggling on we learn we must not choose, Fate's chance each soul must bide, then take or lose. Ah well for him who waits divine decree, The future asking not to know nor see' Who, childlike, takes each day its store of joy, Nor mingles it with prescient woe's alloy; Who dreams no day dreams that can ne'er come true, And peers no farther than the path in View. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.